" Some of the tomb-stones are of the rudest sculpture; upon many of them are inscribed, in Dutch, the names and virtues of the deceased, with their portraitures curiously carved in the similitude of cherubs."

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Het Lechaam van Het Lechaam van Jochum van

Hendrick van Tassel, Wert overleeden den 18

Gebooren den 7 Aug. 1704. van Aug. 1770, out

zynde omtrent 72 yaaren.

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Te Geduchtenis van Catriena Ecker, wedue van Peirus van Tessel, geboren Nov. 10, 1736, overleeden de 10 van Jan'y, 1793, out zynde 56 yaaren en i maanden, &c.

PETER PAULDING, an officer in the Revolutionary army, who died March 3, 1842, in the 73d year of his age.

Sacred to the memory of Colonel BARNARDUS SWARTWOUT, Jra., a soldier of the Revolution, born Sept. 26tb, 1761. deceased Oct. 8th, 1824.

In

Memory of Captain JOHN BUCKHOUT, who departed this life April the 10th, 1785, aged 103 years, and left behind him when he died, 124 children and grand-children.

There are vaults in the yard belonging to the Paulding, Brown, Beeckman and Brush families.

A short distance north of the church, beautifully situated upon a gentle slope which descends into the gorge of the Pocanteco, is the

THE TOWN OF MOUNT PLEASANT.

Irving lot. What strikes the visitor is the perfect simplicity apparent in all its appointments. Within the enclosure, ranged in two lines, are the different graves. Each has a plain head-stone of marble, on which are inscribed the name and age at death of the occupant. The grave of Washington Irving does not differ from those of the rest of the family. The inscription simply tells that